Emery P. Dalesio - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue January 02, 2018
Chinese Tiremaker Chooses N.C. Site for Major Plant
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) A Chinese tiremaker is moving more aggressively into the United States market, announcing plans Dec. 19 for a North Carolina factory that is to eventually employ 800 and produce six million tires a year....
Janet McConnaughey – Associated Press - Tue January 02, 2018
Suit Asks for Governor's Office, Sheriff's Pipeline Records
NEW ORLEANS (AP) A human rights law firm has sued the Louisiana governor's office and a sheriff's office to get records involving a crude oil pipeline proposed to cross the Atchafalaya (uh-CHAF-uh-LY-uh) Basin....
Tue January 02, 2018
Martin & Martin Auctioneers Welcomes Bidders to Pelzer
On Dec. 13, Martin & Martin Auctioneers Inc. held an absolute auction at its permanent auction facility in Pelzer, S.C. It featured construction equipment, trucks, trailers, related items from local contractors and others....
Tue January 02, 2018
Shea Receives Agribusinessman of the Year Award
On Dec. 13, Chris Shea, owner of Low Country Machinery, was named Effingham County Georgia's Agribusinessman of the Year. He was nominated by a committee in the Young Farmers Association of Georgia....
Tue January 02, 2018
Agriculture Proves Key to Construction Equipment Sales
As farming operations get larger and more diverse, so does the equipment and machinery they use. And more and more, that includes equipment that was once only seen on construction sites. Rob Lynch, the owner of Rob's Hydraulics, based near the coast in Grimesland, N.C., knows that very well....
Tue January 02, 2018
Joey Martin Auctioneers Hosts Winter Fleet Reduction Sale
On Dec. 14, Joey Martin Auctioneers hosted a Winter Fleet Reduction Auction at its Tuscaloosa, Ala., sale site. Auction items included new and used construction equipment, as well as lease return agriculture tractors and like new demolition and recycling equipment from one of the southeast's premier demolition companies....
Danica Coto - Associated Press - Tue January 02, 2018
Two Top U.S. Officials Pledge More Help for Puerto Rico Recovery Efforts
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Two U.S. Cabinet secretaries visited Puerto Rico on Dec. 19 and promised to speed up recovery efforts and increase federal assistance for an island struggling nearly three months after Hurricane Maria....
Tue January 02, 2018
Louisiana DOTD Breaks Ground on Hwy 42 Widening
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson joined Gov. John Bel Edwards and other state and local officials Nov. 30 to officially launch a project to widen state highway 42 in Ascension Parish southeast of Baton Rouge....
Cindy Riley - Tue January 02, 2018
Four-Lane Bridge Key Link for Rural Arkansas
Work on a more than $29 million bridge has inched beyond the halfway point in Arkansas, on U.S. 167 near Calion. The new structure is considered a key link in completing a four-lane roadway from El Dorado to the Ouachita River....
Tue January 02, 2018
Lakeland Drive Expansion Officially Open in Rankin County
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall and local officials officially opened the Highway 25/Lakeland Drive Expansion Project during a ribbon cutting ceremony in Rankin County. “This type of transportation improvement project enhances infrastructure that will provide opportunities for economic development and growth along Highway 25 in Flowood, Rankin County and the state of Mississippi,” Hall said....
